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To understand the ESX Agent Manager API, we have to first explain the Agent, which is essentially Agent Virtual Machine. The agent virtual machine can be hardware drivers for your ESXi server, or simply software, i.e, virus scan, that should be deployed on each ESXi. They could have been designed and installed directly on ESXi via VIB, but it would increase the risk of destablizing ESXi due to access to lower level APIs of ESXi. To lower the risk, the driver VM idea came up – if the driver VM crashes the ESXi is still solid even though some service may be affected. Read more...

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